The evolutionary fitness of personality traits in a small-scale subsistence society

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-25

  Gurven, Michael ^a,c   von Rueden, Christopher ^a,c   Stieglitz, Jonathan ^b,c   Kaplan, Hillard ^b,c   Rodriguez, Daniel Eid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Tsimane Health and Life History Project   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Behavioral syndrome; Big Five; Individual differences; Personality; Tsimane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891142707     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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